RSS 2.0 FeedNovember 2011 Volume 38, National News
Mujuru breaks-down at fire-truck donation
HARARE - Vice- President Joyce Mujuru broke down as she received a donation of fire trucks for Harare City Council from a well-wisher touched by the mysterious death of her husband in August this year.
Ex-army commander and liberation war hero, General Solomon Mujuru was killed when an as yet unexplained fire razed his Beatrice farm house.
Harare City Council fire fighters arrived late at the farm, about 80 kilometres away from the capital and struggled to put out the inferno because of the poor state of their equipment.
United States-based Peter Lobel, son of the family which founded the Lobels Bakery, said General Mujuru was a family friend and decided to buy the two vehicles following the tragedy.
"You have shown love to my husband and to City of Harare. On behalf of the family and children, we have no better words to thank you."
In an interview last month, Lobels’ wife Diane Ebzery said they had visited the Harare City Council fire department following Mujuru's death and decided to act after being shocked by the state of the equipment.
“This is crazy,” she said when she saw the state of disrepair of the department’s fire trucks.
“We have a commitment to uplifting the people of Zimbabwe and one of the ways is through providing better services.”
"I am still in the dark about how exactly my husband died and the Mujuru family and me are still waiting for an explanation on how he died,” the Vice President Said in a recent interview.
